Gossip Of The Day

The Prohibition oandidste tor Goveraor of Iowa, at the recent eleotion, received Ies3 (han 200 vote". Marhhat, MacMahon has refused the ex-Empress Eugenio permission to pasR twanty-four hours incógnita in Paris. Meteorologista note the fact that the past summer was cooler by flve dagrees thaii the average seasons for eighty years. The yielil of precious metáis in the United States, which has for sonie time iluctuated f rom $60,000,000 to $70,000,000 per year, will, it is estimated, in 1875 iggregate very nearly $100,000,000. We read in an Eastern paper that two men near Troy have avexaged $400 a moiitli thiriug the past summer, catching frogs and selling thoin in the New York market at 30 cents a pound. And it hasn't been a good season for frogs t'ither. John J. Geohan, the author of the famous " Geghan biü " that passed the last Ohio Legislature, and the man who was responsible for the introduction of the religioii8 issne into the late canvass, was deieated foi a re-election, recoiving the lowest vote of any candidate on the Democratie ticket in Cincinnati. lx is stated hat Jewell and Bristow both strenuonsly opposed the appointment of Mr. Chandler as Secretary of the Interior, and some Washington correspondents are predicting that there will be trouble between Bristow and Chandler, as both are bluff, headstrong men who like to have their own way. The overworked bakers of New York clamor for less work and more pay. Tliey allege that they are compelled to wock eighteen hours daily, with no respite on the Sabbath, for which they reoeive on an average but $11 per week. At some establishments "they are paid $6 per week, with board- two meáis a I day, mainly of bread and coffee. Here is a waming to artists. A paintiug on exlubition in the hall of the House of Representad ves at Washington, which the Appropriation Committee was recommendod to purchase, and representing "Abraham Lincoln 's First Earnings," has been mutilated by some vandal who cut out of the canvas the representation of a silver half dollar in Uncle Abe's hand. H. S. Howe, a citizen of Chicago.jwho had refused to put his fare in the box of a bobtail car, or to pay it except to an nuthorized conductor, was ejected by a special policeman, and charged with disorderly conduct, in that his refusal to pay fare was a breach of the peace. Mr. Howe was acquitted, and now several counter-suits are to be instituted against the street-car company. , Senator Hamlin, of Maine, expluins now that the newspapers were included 1 iu the increase under the Postal law for which he stood sponsor, " by i ence." In other words, the Senator was in so great haste to oblige his clients, the opponents of cheap postage, that he hadn't time to see how the chango they wanted would affect the public. The Senator proposes to have the law amended when Congress meets, bnt he hardly need trouble himself. The matter will j be promptly attended to, whether he takes any action or not. Mr. Charles Collins, editor óf the Sioux City Times, in a letter to his paper trom Washington, says there is no doubt that a general Indian war will be ! urated this fall. The Indians, he states, are generally dissatisfled with the way ! the Black Hills treaty terminated, and it I is a matter of regret with them that they ■ did not commence then by .killing the j Commissioners. Mr. Collins says Gen. ! Crook, commander of the Department of j the Platte, has for some time been j paring for a conflict with the Indians, j and will be rcady when the necessity ! arises. The Indians of the Creek Nation are taking steps to rid themselves of the worthless and rascally pale-faees who have taken up their abode in that country. Through their National Council i they have enacted a law forbidding ! Zeus of the nation, under penalty of $300 j fine, to give employment, to emigrants frora the States. The class of people seeking a temporary hiding place, from i the surrounding States, to avoid arrost j from the authories in those States, has ■ long been a matter of complaint to the Creeks, and it is supposed they will be obliged to leave if they are not allo wed to work for their board, as many have ' done heretofore, for a few days in a i place, then steal a horse and leave. A ltvely battle between college boys and Odd Fellows - who proved selves to be fighting fellows as well- j curred at New Haven, Ct., the other day. ' A procession of the order was marching j by the classic precincts of Yale, when i the students, moved by a spirit of ; try, commenced pelting thom with stones. j The Odds retaliated by charging upon the collegians with drawn swords, which they used to some effect, as we are told I that several of the students were { ed. The latter, who have been ! tomed to riding rough-shod over body and everythiug, were somewhat ! astonished at the vigorous manuer in J which the members of the mystic order ! met and repeUed their attack. It is hoped the youngsters will proflt by the ! l38son taught them. Those f ast rail way trains bowling uier the country at almost lightning speed are very nice things to look npon, and very nice things to travel on for people who have a fancy for rapid traveling : j but there is danger in them, ' lesa. This mile-a mínate travel will be ' the death of soraefeody yet, au aftirmation which iinds ampie corroboration in the hair-breadth escape whicb adirectors' i train on the New York Central had the : day. The train referred to u ma Ie np oi' a locomotive and palace car, the latter containing William H. Vanderbilt and Bevend other railroad magnates, i At one of the stations on the road one ! oí the switches had been inadvertently left opa and they wer throwa over to tha brwieh, At thn -xtravugant rt t I whioh they were going it was imposmble to reniedy the mistake or slacken the , speed, and it was ahnost a miníele that they were not tlirown from the track and dashed to pieces. The only thing that saved thern froin such a fato waa the for túnate faot tliat at the other end of the ; branch the switch, although open, was ! fttipplied wiíh a patent self-adjusting ar rangeineut calculated to set the switch in i au emergency. Although considered j unreliable, often failing to work satisfactorily.in thisinstance it did its duty well. As the train stiuck the switch it was : üfted to the main track and tho danger escaped. The concussion ejected all the passengnrs in tho coach from their chairs, ■ barking shins and smaRhing decantéis, ! dishes, etc, but occasioning no serious injuries. Had the switeh been such as i are in common use on the line, or had the patent " frog " failed to opérate, the result wonld certainly have been most disastrous.